Novelty package



' Aug. 20, 1929. E. H. HACKER 1,725,073

NOVELTY PACKAGE Filed May 28, 1927 A TTORNEYS'.

Patented Aug. 20, 1929.

PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL H. HACKER, F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

NOVELTY PACKAGE.

Application filed May 28, 1927.

My invention relates to novelty packages.

The object of my invention is to incorporate in a representation of a floral bouquet or other pictorial representation in which a number of units such as buildings, boats, automobile parts or other composite things or structures upon a package or wrapping, are used as a partially concealed greeting provided as a surprise novelty for the recipient of the packaged goods.

More particularly stated is the object of my invention to provide in a package wrapper a series of greeting cards partially concealed beneath the outer wrapping and held in partially concealed position in such manner as to invite the curiosity of the recipient of the package and to cause the recipient to draw the greeting cards from its partially concealed position.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top View of a candy box equipped with my improved greeting card.

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the portion of the box provided with the floral bouquet forming part of my invention.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

The package, carton or box 1 equipped with my improved greeting card has a top 2 formed of several plies of paper or fabric material 3, and 4 comprising a wrapper.

Upon the outer ply 3 is pictured a bouquet of flowers 6 wherein the individual flowers are generally massed indiscriminately and in any manner suitable to the artistic taste. They may be shown as a table bouquet in a vase 7 or may be shown as water lilies growing in a pond or in any of the other obvious methods of showing a group of flowers.

At spaced points throughout the bouquet and at various angles suitable to a proper presentation of an additional number of individual flowers I have provided a number of apertures 8 extending through the layer or ply 3 upon which the bouquet is printed or otherwise set forth, and narrow greeting cards shaped as indicated at 10 with a flower similar to those shown in the bouquet and with an appended narrow portion as shown at 11, the appended narrow portion being adapted to slide through the aperture 8 into Serial No. 194,993.

the space 11 between the outer ply 3 and the intermediate ply 4 comprising the top or outer portion of the package or container. Upon the narrow portion 11 of the greeting card any particular quotation or sentiment may be expressed in printing or in script.

At 12, between the narrow portion 11 and the flower portion 10 of the greeting card, I have provided a restricted portion or neck 12 which not only adds to the appearance of the greeting card in carrying out the simulation of a stem of the particular flower presented but the shoulders of the restricted portion as shown at 13 are adapted to co-act with the margins of the aperture 8 to prevent the accidental slipping of the greeting card from beneath the cover portion 3.

From the above description it will be evident that the various flowered ends 10 of the greeting cards being fashioned from card material will stand out of the indiscriminately pictured mass of flowers in the houquet so as to immediately attract the attention of the recipient of a package provided with my improved cards. Curiosity will be aroused as to the reason for the differentiation between these particular flowers and the mass upon which they are superimposed and attention will then be attracted to the slotted aperture 8 and will cause naturally the withdrawal of the greeting card so as to exhibit the sentiment expressed thereon.

I claim:

In a carton, a top for the carton comprising a plurality of plies of material, the outer ply thereof being provided with spaced pocketed apertures, a pictorial representation on said top adjacent said apertures setting forth a plurality of units indiscriminately, a greeting card adapted to be inserted through said apertures and having a portion upon which is set forth a unit similar to those indiscriminately set forth upon the top and indistinguishably distinct from the indiscriminate setting except for the separate plane in which the similar unit is disposed, said card being so fashioned that a greeting set forth upon the remaining portion of the card may be inserted through the aperture for concealment thereof for and frictional engagement between the plies.

EMIL H. HACKER. 

